Virtuals Protocol launched Eastworlds in late February 2026, a robotics accelerator and deployment lab that pairs humanoid robots with real-world teams to generate training data for its tokenized AI e…
Humanoid robots from Figure, Agility Robotics, and UBTech are progressing in real-world deployments, but a new Techstrong Special Report warns that impressive demonstrations do not yet translate into …
Persona AI, founded by Nic Radford and Jerry Pratt, is targeting shipyard welding as the first economically viable job for its humanoid robots, aiming to address a skilled labor shortage in shipbuildi…
Figure has reportedly manufactured its 1,000th humanoid robot at its BotQ facility in San Jose, according to a robotics-industry account surfaced by Aligned News, though the company has not confirmed …
Unitree Robotics founder and CEO Wang Xingxing unveiled the GD01, the world's first mass-produced, transformable mecha robot, standing 9 ft. tall and weighing half a ton, capable of carrying a human p…
Nvidia's new Jetson AGX Thor module cuts the physical footprint of its robotics supercomputer roughly in half while delivering 7.5 times the AI performance of its predecessor, the Jetson AGX Orin, acc…
Rémi Cadène, a former Tesla Optimus scientist, launched Paris-based startup UMA with a lightweight humanoid robot called Northstar, targeting European manufacturing and logistics. The company has 50 p…
Humanoid robots continue to stumble and fall in public demonstrations, including a face-plant during a dance performance in China and a collapse at the Beijing Half Marathon, highlighting their lack o…
Figure, a San Jose-based robotics company, completed a 200-hour continuous package-sorting operation using its Figure 03 robots, sorting 249,560 packages over nine days without failure. The marathon s…
The next major advancement in Physical AI will not come from more capable robots, but from smarter human-machine interfaces that allow users to interact with machines naturally in real-world environme…